Housmans are delighted to welcome the brilliant Out-Spoken Press to the shop to celebrate the launch of Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit‘s brilliant new pamphlet Tongueless.

Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit is a Kurdish writer and poet. She is trilingual, her poetry probes the themes of language, exile and womanhood. Amongst other places, her work has been published in Wasafiri, Prototype, Extra Teeth and Propel Magazine. Tongueless is her debut poetry pamphlet. Set in the beating heart of Family, her poems are both a questioning of the past and a mirror searching for future possibilities. Grappling with loss, the futility of language and the distances of countries, these poems are an accumulation of the speaker’s struggles and senses. Interconnecting locales across generations, they set out what it means to belong and what it means to mean.

We will have a host of poets supporting Rojbîn in the evening including Out-Spoken’s founding director Anthony Anaxagorou. A much celebrated poet in the UK, Anthony has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, Ambit, The Adroit Journal, The London Magazine, The Rialto and elsewhere. His poetry and fiction have appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. His work has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the 2015 Groucho Maverick and 2019 H-100 Awards. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Roehampton.

As always, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com, and a free ticket will be made available.

If you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier, or arrange for delivery, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.

Doors Open at 7pm, Event Starts 7:30

Feel free to Bring Your Own Bottle!